Re: [Wikimedia-l] "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming)

2014-08-07 Thread Quim Gil
About https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Suggestion_for_the_Board:_Technology_Committee On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Pine W wrote: > Quim, can you clarify your comments about the Technology Committee? The > committee is my proposal as a community member; i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming)

2014-08-08 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Pine W wrote: > Quim, it seems to me that the methods used by Features have repeatedly > produced troubled results over the years, so it's time for a different > approach. Note that the approach of empowering Tech Ambassadors to explicitly represent the voice of

[Wikimedia-l] Tech News & the communication gap (was Re: Options for the German Wikipedia)

2014-08-12 Thread Quim Gil
iawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals These resources are far from perfect, but they exist today. Ideas and help to improve them are welcome. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___

[Wikimedia-l] Tracking bugs in the open (was Re: Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes...)

2014-08-25 Thread Quim Gil
g > tracking atm), although so far only in English mostly). > I'm not sure I understand, but in any case https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Get_involved -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!

2013-05-09 Thread Quim Gil
n of the Wikidata team and the European chapters. Needless to say, there would be also people at the Wikimedia Foundation interested in this event. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/U

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-20 Thread Quim Gil
Still about this: Thehelpfulone wrote: > Last week I noticed a nice design for the list info page of the WLM-US > mailing list that I tweaked for this mailing list: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-l Can you share the source? I'm happy to try it for wikitech-announce, tweaking

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-20 Thread Quim Gil
(ugly after several mutations, but seems to work) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/wikitech-announce -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-20 Thread Quim Gil
I'm glad you like it. I will wait for more feedback and once we feel that this is good I will clean the code (we are just using a small portion of all those styles). On 05/20/2013 03:56 PM, Thehelpfulone wrote: On 20 May 2013 23:41, Quim Gil mailto:q...@wikimedia.org>> wr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-20 Thread Quim Gil
On 05/20/2013 10:56 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: MZMcBride, 21/05/2013 04:22: Quim Gil wrote: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Feedback, please. I would love to see this design or something similar become the default for Wikimedia's mailing lists. Com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] making tech journalism easier to read

2013-05-21 Thread Quim Gil
room for complex terminology down in the body text. And this applies to technical posts just as much as to other posts about other expert fields for librarians, translators, lawyers, educators... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Ws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid -- Quim Gil

Re: [Wikimedia-l] making tech journalism easier to read

2013-05-22 Thread Quim Gil
media must keep paying plenty of humans to write good stories. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-22 Thread Quim Gil
Version 1.0 is out: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Source: https://github.com/quimgil/mailman-templates Propagation is welcome. Thank you TheHelpfulOne for the original push and to the other feedback reporters! On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Quim Gil wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-31 Thread Quim Gil
tinfo/libraries -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!

2013-06-18 Thread Quim Gil
schedule/ -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Questions for the Board post-Wikimania

2013-08-19 Thread Quim Gil
s and betas start to show up. And by that time it could be the own tech ambassadors the ones defending the plan they helped build. Opinions are mine, etc. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (itwas: "Communication plans for community engagement"

2013-08-23 Thread Quim Gil
Wikidata team (or even a Kiwix project) isn't trivial at all and I'm personally impressed by these success tech stories lead by chapters. We should have more! (or at least try) There is no lack of work to do. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http

[Wikimedia-l] The community triaging feature requests (was Re: About the concentration of resources in SF

2013-08-23 Thread Quim Gil
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (itwas: "Communication plans for community engagement"

2013-08-26 Thread Quim Gil
e). Sure, I'm just trying to encourage chapters and other orgs to ask their communities about tech projects they would like to help developing. And to consider budget, grants, hackathons etc to complete those projects. If these orgs don't do this then any tech decentralization

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (itwas: "Communication plans for community engagement"

2013-08-27 Thread Quim Gil
/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects Even the featured project ideas must get a reality check as soon as someone steps in at a given time for a specific program. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawik

[Wikimedia-l] Call for tech projects needing contributors

2013-09-13 Thread Quim Gil
ithin the Wikimedia movement (Individual Engagement Grants, chapters...) and out there (internship programs encouraging free software and diversity in tech). We want to hear your feedback! Use the discussion page or reply here. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Founda

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: FOSDEM update

2013-09-25 Thread Quim Gil
cool! Get involved. Discussion better at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM or wikitech-l. Thank you! PS: read below Original Message Subject: FOSDEM update Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:39:58 -0700 From: Quim Gil To: Wikimedia developers Hi, about FOSDE

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: FOSDEM update

2013-09-30 Thread Quim Gil
on as there is a proposal accepted (and therefore structured and documented). Do you want to start drafting at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM ? I'll follow. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: FOSS Outreach Program for Women: call for candidates, projects, and mentors

2013-10-28 Thread Quim Gil
mentors Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:02:37 -0700 From: Quim Gil To: Wikimedia developers PLEASE FORWARD TO WHOEVER MIGHT BE INTERESTED Wikimedia will participate in the FOSS Outreach Program for Women - Round 7. Interns of this program work full time in an open source project during 4 months. https

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Google Code-in: YES, WE ARE IN!

2013-11-01 Thread Quim Gil
interested read below, edit our Google Code-in wiki page, or contact me directly. Original Message Subject: Google Code-in: YES, WE ARE IN! Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:06:29 -0700 From: Quim Gil To: Wikimedia developers Wikimedia is one of the ten organizations selected to participate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-13 Thread Quim Gil
ki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In GCI will start next week and will last until the beginning of January. Hundreds of young students will scan our tasks and will eventually complete some of them. It is a program ideal for small projects, like the bots or gadgets used by editors. -- Quim Gil Technical

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Quim Gil
rue. It would be interesting to see whether the increase in page views pulls a vawe of increased edits and editors numbers. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-07 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, am I the only one having difficulties understanding the proposal and what it implies? On 11/05/2012 07:03 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: we need to split the current department into an engineering dept and a product dept in about 6-8 months. It is strange to see "engineering" and "product" side

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-09 Thread Quim Gil
Thank you for the explanations. On 11/07/2012 11:47 AM, Terry Chay wrote: It turns out we use a lot of industry terminology, without realizing that we are poorly communicating what that means to most people. Actually I'm familiar with industry terminology, and also with the wrong assumptions

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-21 Thread Quim Gil
Thanks Erik for the extensive response. Ultimately what counts is ongoing progress. If the model proposed is an improvement from the current, solving specific problems we currently have, then fine and I'm all or it. I'm still stuck in one point: On 11/19/2012 07:54 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: 3

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

2012-12-02 Thread Quim Gil
Original Message Subject: Re: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year? Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:32:46 -0800 From: Quim Gil To: map...@lists.wikimedia.org CC: Andy Mabbett Hi, On 12/02/2012 12:03 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I would suggest piggy-backing this on

[Wikimedia-l] Proposal: MediaWiki Groups

2012-12-04 Thread Quim Gil
quarter_17 -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: MediaWiki Groups

2012-12-07 Thread Quim Gil
en keep reading: Original Message Subject: Re: Proposal: MediaWiki Groups Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:25:26 -0800 From: Quim Gil Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers After some valuable feedback from the Affiliations Committee and others, plus a big wave of

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread Quim Gil
fyi Original Message Subject: MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own! Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:14:39 -0800 From: Quim Gil Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers MediaWiki Groups are now official - and recognized by the Wikimedia Affiliations

Re: [Wikimedia-l] chronically ill paraplegic, and donating to wikipedia ...

2012-12-21 Thread Quim Gil
d time and any cent spent. And now... back to work! :'-) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF HR and leadership questions

2012-12-28 Thread Quim Gil
n see trustful oldtimers still around and then many newcomers, but a difficulty to keep these as mid time contributors. Just another personal idea without any data to back it. :) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] compromise?

2013-01-04 Thread Quim Gil
between such corporate salary and the one I've got now. PS: speaking entirely for myself although I wouldn't be surprised if this sentiment is shared among other WMF employees. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] compromise?

2013-01-04 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/04/2013 10:53 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 4 January 2013 18:17, Quim Gil wrote: And then again we would be comparing the salary I had in such company after 5 years of (hopefully good) work, not the one I had at the beginning. It would be very unusual for an employer to disregard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

2013-01-08 Thread Quim Gil
t cool hackathon in the pipeline! :) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUK vacancies

2013-01-11 Thread Quim Gil
ier sharing. For instance: https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/289343542072078336 Thanks! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp

2013-01-11 Thread Quim Gil
://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/289786939358445568 https://www.facebook.com/MediaWikiProject/posts/146083212211559 https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/103470172168784626509/posts/YqVTWGHmLmy -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, top Internet brand in Germany

2013-01-17 Thread Quim Gil
surveys are all subjective, but nevertheless... -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Following MediaWiki & Wikimedia tech news

2013-01-29 Thread Quim Gil
scope: from Wikimedia data center migration to a new Android app from an individual contributor or a cool demo video from a 3rd party MediaWiki user. Your follows, likes, circles, RTs etc are welcome. You can propose news as well. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon

2013-04-11 Thread Quim Gil
inal Message Subject: Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:05:53 -0700 From: Quim Gil Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers Hi, you have probably heard about Wikimedia Hackathon 24-26 May in Amsterdam (Netherlands) http://www.mediawiki.org/

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Recycling wikitech-announce for tech contributors

2013-04-13 Thread Quim Gil
ilman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Original Message Subject: Recycling wikitech-announce for tech contributors Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:23:21 -0700 From: Quim Gil Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers Hi, We were missing a way to notify tech contributor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-04-17 Thread Quim Gil
to implement it right away at wikitech-announce. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

[Wikimedia-l] Feedback survey about the Movement Strategy Forum

2023-02-11 Thread Quim Gil
urvey]_Please_provide_your_feedback_about_the_Movement_Strategy_Forum You can also use these channels to ask your questions and share your feedback about the survey itself. When the survey report is completed, we will share it on this list as well. Enjoy your weekend! -- Quim Gil (he/him) Director of Movement Str

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